Elsie Price on Anderton Street
Elsie Price outside her shop at 29 Anderton Street in 1956. The shopfront includes familiar adverts for Walls Ice Cream and Park Drive cigarettes. A favourite of mine is the Beech Nut chewing gum machine ...
Elvetham Road
This view of Elvetham Road is from the junction with Pakenham Road looking up the hill. The church at the top right is St James's Church which is situated at the corner of Elvetham and St James's Road. ...
Emily Arms Public House
The Emily Arms Public House located at the junction of Emily Street and Upper Highgate Street. One of many popular "watering holes" in the area.
Emvee furniture by Morgan and Viggers
Sales of furniture by Morgan & Viggers Ltd, of 81, 83, 85 Soho Road. The premises would have been roughly halfway between the junctions of Piers Road and Holliday Road. The shop sold period furniture, ...
Entrance Hall, Soho House
This photograph of the Entrance Hall at Soho House was taken by Birmingham photographers Lewis and Randall in 1927. By this date Soho House, the former home of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew ...
Entrance Hall, Soho House
This view of the Entrance Hall at Soho House was taken in 1927 by Lewis and Randall. By then the former home of Matthew Boulton was Soho Hall Hotel.
Just visible behind the further column is a passage ...
Entrance to St Lukes School
Now a Sure Start centre. This was St Luke's Primary School and the old front entrance still clearly reminds us of this fact some four years after the school's closure! Countless numbers of children passed ...
Envy Music
Text: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
The Soho Road houses several South Asian music and video retail stores. These date back to the late sixties and early seventies, when mainly Indian shopkeepers began to ...
Envy Music
Detail from Envy Music's window on the Soho Road.
ER Mason Youth Centre - March 2005 newsletter
Page two of the newsletter updating on centre times, recent and future events. The Lee Bank area is the subject of major urban renewal, and the youth centre is in the process of relocating to a temporary ...
Ernest Street, Lee Bank
View looking up Ernest Street from Holloway Head, Lee Bank. The cars tend to confirm the date of the photograph, which is 8th February 1965. To the left are apparently the backs of buildings in Exeter ...
Ernest Street, Lee Bank
Industrial buildings in Ernest Street, Lee Bank, off the south side of Holloway Head. The photograph, taken on 11th January 1965, shows on the left the factory of William Garfield Ltd, listed as tinplate ...
Essex Street towards Clydesdale Tower
This is the view looking up Essex Street, across The Horsefair, with Clydesdale Tower in the distance. the shops on either side are still recognisable from the early twentieth century. Up till 1961 you ...
Essington Street - George V Jubilee
Local residents posing for a photograph during celebrations for the jubilee of King George V. The King celebrated 25 years on the throne on May 6th 1935.
Excerpts from the log book of Nelson Street Schools
An interesting series from the school log. This was originally published in the "Brew 'Us Bugle". Amongst the topics discussed are the evacuation of children from Castle Bromwich railway station to Worksop. ...
Extracts from "Osmag"
"Osmag" was the magazine or chronicle of Osler Street Secondary Modern Boys' School. These extracts from the school log namecheck several pupils including L. Lantham, F. Frazier, M. Cox and Michael Atkinson.
The ...
F E Wilkes Decorating Contractors
F E Wilkes Decorating Contractors, Mary Street Balsall Heath
F. E. Spencer - Baker and Confectioner
Francis Edmund Spencer ran a bakery opposite the Library. He also had premises at number 93 on Holyhead Road so it would seem his "fancy" flour and delivery service were very popular in Victorian and ...